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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:07:49 -0400 (EDT) From: <dallen5...> Subject: from the north central coast of SC |
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Francis Marion National Forest, Berkeley County, Road 212 from Rt 45 to FR 204 (about 6 miles) August 13, 2025 11:05am - 12:45 pm Dennis and Wendy Allen Pipevine Swallowtail 1 Black Swallowtail 3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3 Palamedes Swallowtail 18 Cloudless Sulphur 7 Little Yellow 10 Gray Hairstreak 4 Little Metalmark 6 Gulf Fritillary 3 Pearl Crescent 5 Common Buckeye 3 Red-spotted Purple 2 Intricate Satyr 1 Monarch 3 Long-tailed Skipper 2 Southern Cloudywing 2 Horace's Duskywing 1 Swarthy Skipper 2 Clouded Skipper 13 Tawny-edged Skipper 2 Southern Broken-Dash 8 Delaware Skipper 6 Byssus Skipper 6 Dun Skipper 4 Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 1 Twin-spot Skipper 83 Ocola Skipper 1 unidentified skippers 3 Still 1000's of yellow rosinweed flowers (Sylphium spp.) along southern 60% of 211. We probably stopped and carefully inspected only about 25% of the roadside shoulders along the total length of 212. All butterfly species were seen on rosinweed, with most Metalmarks on Sneezeweed and most Palamedes Swallowtails puddling on the damp road. Francis Marion National Forest, Charleston County, Road 211 from Rt 45 to FR 220/216 (about 2 miles) August 13, 2025 9:40 -10:50 am Dennis and Wendy Allen Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2 Palamedes Swallowtail 27 Cloudless Sulphur 7 Little Yellow 5 Gray Hairstreak 1 Little Metalmark 4 Gulf Fritillary 2 Pearl Crescent 1 Red-spotted Purple 1 Clouded Skipper 9 Southern Broken-Dash 4 Dun Skipper 2 Twin-spot Skipper 32 Hyptis sp., Sneezeweed, and Angled purple loosetrife were the dominant flowers with patches of sparse Eryngium and swamp milkweed. Lots of nectar but surprisingly few butterflies. |
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